Figures that this technology is only going to be available at the rest stops. What would be cool is if it was available all along the major highways. This would be great for instant traffic and weather updates while driving. Who knows... maybe in a few years.

Derek

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In a few years well have cheap high speed cellphone access (probably). You can already get some decent speeds with cellphone providers if your willing to pay. WiFi isn't really the best protocol to use for fast moving vehicles and its range sucks relatively.

That doesn't compute in the US, count on all major players (those using GPS excluded) to keep trying at preventing any sort of country/continent - wide standard from apperaring... (AMPS, CDMA and the like)
also, cheap is not happening anytime soon either...
IMHO, what will happen that has a better chance of really coming out is a road mesh network that self-organizes between all the cars present on the road...